In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 Rwandan people, or 11 percent of the total population (including 84 percent of the Rwandan Tutsi), were brutally slaughtered. As the death toll rose and bodies piled up on the streets of Rwanda, senior U.S. officials continued to prioritize issues in Bosnia, Haiti and North Korea, and avoided labeling the Rwandan crisis "genocide." While discussions over a possible intervention persisted at the lower levels of the U.S. government, State Department lawyers, under the direction of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher, refused to call the atrocities in Rwanda "genocide." Some policymakers, most notably then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Prudence Bushnell, argued forcefully for intervention to stop the massacres. Ye...
Through a program funded in part by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a local middle school teacher spent time in Rwanda this summer, organizing that country's first known genocide seminar for teachers. Andrew T. Beiter, of Hamburg, who teaches eighth-grade social studies at Springville Middle School, helped pull together the three-day conference, held for 35 Rwandan teachers in the capital, Kigali.
When Teddy Gacinya returned to her homeland of Rwanda in 1994 after going into exile in Kenya during the genocide, her heart broke at the devastation that greeted her. But she channeled her sorrow into a project the country would desperately need as it began rebuilding: a school. Gacinya, a teacher by trade, willingly took on administrative duties for the private school in Kigali City, which took in a multitude of orphans whose parents were among the nearly 1 million people slaughtered.
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On this 16th commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we devote our thoughts to those who were lost and honor those who survived. More than 800,000 men, women, and children were killed and countless others continue to live with the pain and trauma of their memories and their loss.
,000 were killed 10 years ago
This week marks the 15th commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It is a somber occasion that causes us to reflect upon the deaths of the more than 800,000 men, women, and children who were killed simply because of their ethnicity or their political beliefs. The memory of these events also deepens our commitment to act when faced with genocide and to work with partners around the world to prevent future atrocities.
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